On Thu, 26 Jan 1995 12:02:00 EST s.merchant said: >The first is from Compu$erve (they want $$$$, apparently). "Postage Due"?! >That's a new one! >================ >From: Electronic Postmaster <[log in to unmask]> >Comments: Returned from: <[log in to unmask]> > >Re: ? EMDRPD - Mail Delivery Failure. Refused -- Postage Due. 76102,3333 >================ No, what that (probably) means is that the person in question hasn't paid his Compu$erve bill. They charge for incoming Internet messages, and the subject line always has a little "+Postage Due!" reminder in it--if you don't read it, they don't charge you...or something like that. It's very weird. So Compu$erve is bouncing the message because the user hasn't paid--I guess. >The second is a little more disturbing. It's a terse and unhelpful reply >to my request to a postmaster to fix their backwards mailers that attempt >to send messages for 31(!) days, and let you know for that it didn't go >through the first time only 8 days later! So you know you have a backlog >of at least 8 days of bounces even if you delete the person >immediately. Just FYI. >================ <deleted the quoted bounce> Of course he can fix it. He just doesn't want to (or doesn't know how to)--or his site guidelines are set in stone and if he changes them he gets fired (or put on days or something:). The question is whether or not it is a "fix" to him. As far as he's concerned, his system is working just fine. I had a postmaster somewhere do this to me not long ago. I felt like forwarding him all of the bounces when he said he couldn't purge the user's queue, then at least he would get to suffer right along with me. But I didn't do it. Too time consuming (of my time, not his). Nathan